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Thursday, January 30, 2014

This B- list mostly television actor who had a great role on a great hit cable show walked out of an interview last week when a reporter called him black. The actor said he isn't black and it really ticked him off.

well to play devils advocate--and this might stir-things-up a little BUT if it was a very light skinned black person and the reporter mentioned him being white and he got offended and ended the interview people wouldn't say shit...(I PERSONALLY think buddy is being a drama queen but it is true)

Is there anyone in a cable show that is bi-racial? That is the only way I can see this happening-as an example only--Kris Humphries who is almost white but is bi-racial, or Griffith from the LA Clippers.

or the actor could be from a race that is underrepresented in Hollywood such as latin or philipeno and he could be tired of people lumping him into a category of black or white and assuming he is something he is not without doing any research or even asking

I had this whole train of thought re: Jessie "Dreamy Eyes" Williams; there was such (created) controversy regarding his almost / not at all being cast in The Hunger Games, and if someone asked him about being black in reference to that, I could see huffy

"BUT if it was a very light skinned black person and the reporter mentioned him being white and he got offended and ended the interview people wouldn't say shit"

What? Of course people would say something, probably quite a bit. Can't you just hear the "White people are sooooo picked on" crowd going mental if some actor got offended for being called White on television? I can - easily.

What's the point of asking such a question? How about, what's your ancestry? Oh, wait, it must be E! news journalism! (Also, ticking Jason Mamoa off... I'd do it just so he'd haul me off to the bedroom for a time-out - wink, wink, nudge, nudge - but instead of asking him if he was black, I'd ask his opinion of GRR Martin.)

@VIP, thanks for confirming. @Talks, I hated that Jesse wasn't cast as Finnick. He was so Finnick to me - deep skin, gorgeous eyes, oozing sex appeal. I've heard the guy they cast works, so I'll just cast Jesse in my mind. :b

Momoa was at Sundance. He fits. Agree with those above saying he wasn't angry because he's some racist. His marriage indicates he's not. Rather, he was unhappy that reporter didn't do his/her homework.

If a person's cultural and racial identity is important to them, of course it matters. I love the Momoa guess fwiw, and it's like calling someone Chinese when they're really Korean; it's not the same, and pretending it is, is just being ignorant and dismissive of someone's culture. Get it right.

Crila-some people just dont have an eye for that. I dont-i am constantly surprised by someone identifying as black when i either never thought of it or just dont have good eye for that. So the opposite cld totally happen. It cld be annoying i guess. People always think im jewish-since im a kid-and i dont get offended.

This is why you are all wrong about Giancarlo Esposito -- he was in "Do The Right Thing"...as a black character. He's Italian and Black. That man does not deny his heritage, especially considering he's played several black characters, especially historical.

Having scrummed down with a lot of islander brahs (Samoans, Tongans, Fijians), those guys can be a little touchy about being mistaken for black. They take their tribal heritage seriously. You really don't want to piss of one of the brahs.

Cocopuff, Wentworth Miller actually did have a bit of a run-in with an interviewer who assumed he was white (around the time of The Human Stain). He's always said he can identify as either black or white, but he also has said, "But I'm not white."

Interesting discussion. I do think it wld be tiring to be called black if African or another ethnicity, much the same as being called any number of Asian distinctions except for the right one, etc; In an interview an actor should be able to expect an interviewer to have basic knowledge of their subject.

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